Hi guys...I am looking for a good quality night vision scope for my Mini-14 rifle (not generation I) in the price range of $1000-1200. I am wondering if any of you have any info or suggestions? Thanks alot!

-Doomy

-- garySOUTH (doomer@big.time), November 14, 1999

Answers

A proctoscope should work wonders for you.

-- Dr. have you (found@his.head.yet?), November 14, 1999.

I think it's pretty disturbing that some guys are planning to shoot anybody that wanders within a mile of their place, or anyone that goes blundering by in the darkness.

What the f*ck will you guys think up next? Rigging your kids with TNT so they can hurl their little bodies at the looters and go KA-BOOM?

-- Ocotillo (peeling@out.===), November 14, 1999.

Most of us who have "night vision" scopes for our rifles have them to keep coyotes and such out of the chickens and ducks. The fact that you think that we might shoot someone who innocently wondered onto our property is rediculous. Trying to lable someone who has a weapon that you do not understand is stupid and dangerous.

-- JRR (Yessss@mypreciousss.yesss), November 14, 1999.

And if this wasn't a deliberate taunting thread, more people would answer....Go back to debunkers...you exceeded your curfew, child, guns or no guns...

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), November 14, 1999.

It is good common sence to have night vision if one can afford it.

1. Good people (if they get hungry) will come to your house to ask of food in the daytime.

2. Thieves will come at night (Both 2 leged and 4 leged).

3. It just might save a few lives if you can *see* that the stranger sneeking up behind your house is ole aunt minni, insted of thinking it is a mass murderer.

Just my thoughts

-- bulldog (sniffin@around.com), November 14, 1999.

Just another setup conversation courtesy of:

The Troll Bait and Tackle Shop (Also Known As DeBuNKeRs)

There is a trend of this kind of question (the layup) followed by the "LOUDMOUTHED-I-TOLD-YOU-SO" type reply from the Extremist Ultra-Polly Group. Only they could stoop so low.

I hope they brush and floss regularly. The stuff they spew would gag a horsefly.

...(hitting the)...

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), November 14, 1999.

Go ahead and spend a few more dollars and get something from ITT. Stay away from the AMT stuff marketed by many for under 1500 bucks--you will regret going this route I promise.

-- T. Jewel (av8r@home.net), November 14, 1999.

TROLL ALERT!!!!

-- Dog (Desert Dog@-sand.com), November 14, 1999.

The question isn't neccesarily a dumb or troll question. I KNOW that I would like to have decent night vision capability. Possible uses for it: seeing if someone is sneaking up on your property during a post SHTF scenario, IDing same before you shoot them, spotting animals that are nocturnal (raccoons, dogs, you name it - causing trouble most likely). You could hunt with it after dark, or in very dim twilight.

I did look into goggle versions, not the rifle mounted versions. Expect your wallet to take quite a hit if you want decent quality equipment. This excludes Russian surplus - stick with US made gear for better quality and repairability. A Gen II monocular goggle that has a head harness is in excess of $2000 (!). You can get a version that ITT puts out for boating use (as I recall, it's a binocular type, but only has one lens - you look through it with both eyes, but it only has one lens that incoming light affects). That was still over $2000...

With a good NV set, you can see a person at 100+ yards in cloudy conditions or only starlight, or with moonlight at 200+ yards. I think that having that capability might be a tad useful if things have come apart at the seams, as it were, don't you?

I AM NOT saying to shoot whatever you can see with your new increased vision capability. You have to ID it as a threat, before you shoot.

-- Bill (billclo@msgbox.com), November 16, 1999.